Justiniano Asunción

The portraitists of those time carefully delineated features of the head; the hands and other minor details with linear accuracy; usually disregarding tonal values and emphasizing hardness of effect.

The University of Santo Tomas Museum owns one of Asuncion’s paintings, dated February 1862.

On September 12, 1983, at the façade of Santa Cruz Church in Manila, a marker was installed in his honor.

His siblings are: Manuel (born 1792), Antonio (1794), Victoria (1796), Mamerta (1798), Justo (1800), Mariano, Jr. (1802), Epifanio (1806), Ambrosio (1808), Pascula (1811), Leoncio (1813), Canuta (1819), Theodoro (unknown).

[2] Justiniano married Justina Farafina Gomez and had six children: Benita, Zacarias, Marcelina, Jacobo, Gabriel and Martiniana.